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[Slippenos]

I have a website and it is a data access page. To print it, you need to set your page orientation to landscape and your margins to zero. Is there a way to have this automatically set up so you can just goto file | print and it will print out this way?

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[ChrisHunt]

See faq215-5803

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[Slippenos]

Good article. When I printed out the document- it was very mangled and scewed.

So I'm trying something new. My users can change the page orientation on their own- but asking them to change the margins as well might be asking too much.

Here is what I have in mind:

<STYLE type=text/css>

@media Print

{

BODY
    
	{
	BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; 
	MARGIN: 0px; 
	BACKGROUND-COLOR: white;
	}

}

</STYLE>

However, it doesn't work. All the margins have to be zero and the orientation has to be landscape for this page to fit on one page.

Am I doing something wrong?

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[Vragabond]

No, it does not work, because margins that appear on the printed page have nothing to do with margins on the body element. Margins you're trying to influence are not that easy to control. The only way I know is to use a component for IE and simply forget other browsers, since they will never let websites tinker with their settings. The component for IE can be found here:

http://www.meadroid.com/sx_intro.asp